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University Facilities as Real-World Foci of Multidisciplinary Science Learning

The authors sought to better approximate the practice of “real” science in our classrooms by having students study a newly built storm-water remediation wetland on campus. The wetland was meant to gather and clean storm water running off of stude...

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Guest Editorial: Where Are the Women of Color? Data on African American, Hispanic, and Native American Faculty in STEM

In October of 2009, the Committee on Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineer (CEOSE) held a symposium on Women of Color in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics; NSF-OAI). The symposium featured data pertaining to Asian, African...

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A Writing and Ethics Component for a Quantum Mechanics, Physical Chemistry Course

A writing-across-the-curriculum and ethics component is presented for a second-semester, physical chemistry course. The activity involves introducing ethical issues pertinent to scientists. Students are asked to read additional material, participate ...

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Virtual Field Exercises in the Online Classroom: Practicing Science Teachers’ Perceptions of Effectiveness, Best Practices, and Implementation

A new challenge in science education at the university level is the implementation of effective field components within online courses. In nationwide online graduate geoscience courses composed of practicing teachers (N = 130), Google Earth laborator...

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Developing Problem-Solving Skills of Students Taking Introductory Physics via Web-Based Tutorials

Science teaching and learning can be made both engaging and student-centered using pedagogical, computer-based learning tools. The authors have developed self-paced interactive problem-solving tutorials for introductory physics. These tutorials can p...

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Research and Teaching: Toward a Deeper Understanding of Student Interest or Lack of Interest in Science

This study examined the nature of college students’ interest or lack of interest in science and the factors to which they attributed their interest or lack of interest....

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Science From the Pond Up: Using Measurement to Introduce Inquiry

The authors engaged nonscience majors enrolled in an integrated science course with a prototype activity designed to change their mindset from cookbook to inquiry science. This article describes the activity, the Warm Little Pond, which helped studen...

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Favorite Demonstration: Inquiry-Based Approach to Understanding Common Descent

In this inquiry-based activity, students catalog external and internal characteristics of four different classes of animals during dissection exercises. On the basis of their accumulated data, students compare and contrast the animals, devise a phylo...